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Seven years ago, he fell in love with a stranger he couldn’t have—today, she’s back in his life and the sparks between them threaten to set her career on fire. Pearl Harris has learned the hard way to be careful in work and in love. When she is appointed acting director of OurCode, a nonprofit aimed at inspiring high schoolers to code, she has a chance to make lasting change for the organization, but a scandal has put their reputation at risk. Further complicating matters, Pearl didn’t expect the one man she hasn’t stopped thinking about in seven years to be the newest member of her board of directors. Cord Matthews fell for Pearl when they met in an elevator seven years ago. She’s just his type: smart, capable, and makes him laugh, but when she broke his heart, he decided love wasn’t for him. After five years with no contact, their connection is immediate despite the many roadblocks in their way and Cord must consider breaking his ban on serious relationships. But going public with a romance between them might derail Pearl’s career and the progress she’s made at OurCode. Pearl and Cord both are hesitant to trust their feelings and take a risk as they grow closer, but it becomes impossible to keep ignoring the electricity between them. Cord is a skilled programmer, but a workplace romance might spell disaster for both of them, and love isn’t easily debugged.
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Thank you so much to Berkley Romance, Negalley, and PRH Audio for the advanced copies of this book. All thoughts and opinions are still my own.
Denise Williams is an auto-read author for me. I have absolutely adored her romances and always love her heroine's. I was extra excited to see that this book featured programming - which is what I do for my career.
But this book just didn't quite hit the mark for me sadly.
I thought that the premise of this was fun in theory. I love of a good second chance and/or forbidden romance.
But in this case, the "forbidden" aspect was 100% self induced. The entire plot of this could have been fixed with 1 trip to HR, and 30 minute conversion, and some signatures.
The heroine, while strong and loyal and dedicated, was self-sabotaging to the extreme. The choices she would make felt so out of left field sometimes it was aggravating.
While the hero had no personality at all. He was so bland and unmemorable. I literally can't remember a single fact about him other than he was attracted to the heroine.
The best part of this book was hands down the side characters and mentorship program. This allowed for a discussions about inclusion and diversity in the STEM world which I always appreciate and love to see.
While this one wasn't a hit for me, I'm still very interested to pick up Denise Williams' next romance. I think she does amazing diverse romances with unique setups and themes and I can't wait to see what she does next.
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